{"id":559,"date":"2009-08-31T23:39:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T04:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=559"},"modified":"2009-08-31T23:44:54","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T04:44:54","slug":"white-wires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"White Wires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/media\/white_wires.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/>I saw this Canadian trio a few weeks ago and thought they were okay, but at the time I was more smitten with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statues.ca\">Statues<\/a>, my <em>other<\/em> new favorite band from Ontario. It took a little research and a thorough background check before I could totally get on board with White Wires because my suds-soaked noggin dismissed them as being too conventional for ears. Fortunately I&#8217;ve come to appreciate their laid back, stripped-down, fuzzy garage pop, which falls somewhere between the axis of\u00a0<strong>The Velvet Underground<\/strong>, <strong>Testors<\/strong>, and <strong>Chuck Berry<\/strong>. \u00a0With small nods to classic R&amp;B and an unbridled enthusiasm for what they do \u2014 and the good sense to\u00a0cover\u00a0The Wipers&#8217; &#8220;Messenger&#8221; \u2014 they&#8217;ve completely won me over. Be sure to check &#8217;em out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goner-records.com\/gonerfest\/index.php\">Goner Fest<\/a> if you&#8217;re lucky enough to be in Memphis later this month\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>LINKS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/theewhitewires\">The White Wires on MySpace<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wgnea6tGzrA\">The White Wires &#8220;Girly Girly Girly&#8221; video<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5Hzbs3rlsLM\">The White Wires &#8220;Messenger&#8221; (The Wipers) video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this Canadian trio a few weeks ago and thought they were okay, but at the time I was more smitten with Statues, my other new favorite band from Ontario. It took a little research and a thorough background check before I could totally get on board with White Wires because my suds-soaked noggin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[88,86],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}